MINORS CEMETERY, Smith County, Texas
Made available to the USGenWeb Archives by the
East Texas Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711
CEMETERY RECORDS OF SMITH COUNTY TEXAS, Volume IV, Southeast Quarter,
p. 236.
Submitted 15 May 2000 by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net.
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(Copied 16 February 1986)
Located on Denman Road (CR 26) just north of Overton city limits.
Isaac FARMER originally started the cemetery. The land belonged to
Henry Clyde and Mary Elizabeth Wilson MINOR who are buried in the
Overton City Cemetery. Many of the unmarked graves were dug up when
the county widened this road in 1962. The remaining marked graves are:
TERRY, Mary C. - 12 July 1837 - 22 Dec 1868
Married 29 July 1856 in Hardin County, TN - wife of John C. Terry
(Stone about 30' east of fence.)
BARBER, John - 1820-1883 - (a homemade flat cement stone located
within an iron fence, directly on edge of road)
BARBER, Basha - (no dates)
BARBER, Ely - (no dates) (Known by great-granddaughters Donnie & Ardie
Bills 26 Dec 1950)